165Hz 1440p gaming gpu?

[Shaper]

I kinda shot myself in the leg 3 years ago and followed Linus's advice on getting an Asus PB277Q 2560x1440 IPS monitor while still rocking a GTX 570 GPU. Even though I was blissfully happy with 1080p gaming... 

Got the monitor and did not regret my decision until I fired up a game and saw that my trusty old GTX 570 could not keep up. Fine; I bought another one. Because two.
That held up for a while but VRAM kept holding me back. So I sold the cards and got a 970. Problem solved! 
The Division came out and the 970 struggled. So I overclocked the piss out of both my GPU and CPU (i72600k) and got a stable 55-58FPS in The Division. 
Still great! And have been so far. Untill now...

 

3 weeks ago I made another "bad" decision. Since I already had 1440p and an IPS panel. The only upgrade path for me monitor wise was a faster one. In my case an Asus 27" LED G-Sync Rog Swift PG279Q that I bought used for a good price. AND I LOVE IT!

The only thing now is that there is no way my 970 will ever keep up with running the +100 FPS I now need for "lag free" gaming. Anything below 90 feels like slush for me now. 
The games I play now are mostly Overwatch, WoW, CSGO but I know I will play more "Triple A games" in the future. 

So what is my upgrade path from here?  Should I go with another 970? A 1070 or even a 1080?
In my eyes I feel that I am one of the very few people here actually benefiting from a 1080 (TI), since I have the high resolutuion plus the high refreshrate.

What is most sensible? 

 

My current setup now is:

P67 Sabertooth Motherboard

i7-2600k @ 4,5GHz

16GB 1600MHz Corsair RAM

GTX 970 @ 1430/7600MHz Core/Mem

3xSSD's 1x500GB Samsung EVO 2x120GB Corsair FORCE

600W Corsair PSU

Thanks for all your thoughts and recommendations. 

[JaegerB]

1070, 1080, Vega 56, Vega 64, and probably whatever we see from nVidia next year.

[BuckGup]

1080 but in reality probably a Titan XP for 100FPS at 1440p and 165FPS two Titan XPs 

[Princess Luna]

i7 8700k with a 1080 Ti, if feels not enough SLI it, as funny as recommending a TITAN Xp goes... just no.

[Brett_Bst]

simple answer is down to how much money you have ?

if you can afford a 1080 get that if you can afford a 1080ti get that.

Also most say that a 1080 ti will beat a titan xo in gaming any way so why pay more for a titan xp, titan or 1080 ti = 1080 ti wins all day long

As long as the cpu can keep up with the gpu get the best one you can afford, I would go 1080 at least but would rather a 1080 ti but that's just me

[SALEEN961]

I just upgraded to a 1080ti and I'm running the same monitor (not that the specific monitor really matters), while playing GTA V maxed out to very high and ultra settings with 4x MSAA I get roughly 80FPS average with lows at roughly 60.

 

If you are trying to play AAA games at higher settings I think a 1080ti is still not going to give you the FPS you're looking for in those AAA titles, if you're ok with dropping down the settings to low or medium depending on the game I think a 1080/1080ti will give you what you're looking for as far as 100+FPS

[Zeitec]

44 minutes ago, Shaper said:

I kinda shot myself in the leg 3 years ago and followed Linus's advice on getting an Asus PB277Q 2560x1440 IPS monitor while still rocking a GTX 570 GPU. Even though I was blissfully happy with 1080p gaming... 

Got the monitor and did not regret my decision until I fired up a game and saw that my trusty old GTX 570 could not keep up. Fine; I bought another one. Because two.
That held up for a while but VRAM kept holding me back. So I sold the cards and got a 970. Problem solved! 
The Division came out and the 970 struggled. So I overclocked the piss out of both my GPU and CPU (i72600k) and got a stable 55-58FPS in The Division. 
Still great! And have been so far. Untill now...

 

3 weeks ago I made another "bad" decision. Since I already had 1440p and an IPS panel. The only upgrade path for me monitor wise was a faster one. In my case an Asus 27" LED G-Sync Rog Swift PG279Q that I bought used for a good price. AND I LOVE IT!

The only thing now is that there is no way my 970 will ever keep up with running the +100 FPS I now need for "lag free" gaming. Anything below 90 feels like slush for me now. 
The games I play now are mostly Overwatch, WoW, CSGO but I know I will play more "Triple A games" in the future. 

So what is my upgrade path from here?  Should I go with another 970? A 1070 or even a 1080?
In my eyes I feel that I am one of the very few people here actually benefiting from a 1080 (TI), since I have the high resolutuion plus the high refreshrate.

What is most sensible? 

 

My current setup now is:

P67 Sabertooth Motherboard

i7-2600k @ 4,5GHz

16GB 1600MHz Corsair RAM

GTX 970 @ 1430/7600MHz Core/Mem

3xSSD's 1x500GB Samsung EVO 2x120GB Corsair FORCE

600W Corsair PSU

Thanks for all your thoughts and recommendations. 

If you want 1440p at 90fps for AAA games it's the 1080ti, the 1080ti, and the 1080ti all day long. 

[Acquire]

6 hours ago, Shaper said:

I kinda shot myself in the leg 3 years ago and followed Linus's advice on getting an Asus PB277Q 2560x1440 IPS monitor while still rocking a GTX 570 GPU. Even though I was blissfully happy with 1080p gaming... 

Got the monitor and did not regret my decision until I fired up a game and saw that my trusty old GTX 570 could not keep up. Fine; I bought another one. Because two.
That held up for a while but VRAM kept holding me back. So I sold the cards and got a 970. Problem solved! 
The Division came out and the 970 struggled. So I overclocked the piss out of both my GPU and CPU (i72600k) and got a stable 55-58FPS in The Division. 
Still great! And have been so far. Untill now...

 

3 weeks ago I made another "bad" decision. Since I already had 1440p and an IPS panel. The only upgrade path for me monitor wise was a faster one. In my case an Asus 27" LED G-Sync Rog Swift PG279Q that I bought used for a good price. AND I LOVE IT!

The only thing now is that there is no way my 970 will ever keep up with running the +100 FPS I now need for "lag free" gaming. Anything below 90 feels like slush for me now. 
The games I play now are mostly Overwatch, WoW, CSGO but I know I will play more "Triple A games" in the future. 

So what is my upgrade path from here?  Should I go with another 970? A 1070 or even a 1080?
In my eyes I feel that I am one of the very few people here actually benefiting from a 1080 (TI), since I have the high resolutuion plus the high refreshrate.

What is most sensible? 

 

My current setup now is:

P67 Sabertooth Motherboard

i7-2600k @ 4,5GHz

16GB 1600MHz Corsair RAM

GTX 970 @ 1430/7600MHz Core/Mem

3xSSD's 1x500GB Samsung EVO 2x120GB Corsair FORCE

600W Corsair PSU

Thanks for all your thoughts and recommendations. 

A 1080 is a very powerful card and could probably be enough for you.  I had one for 3440x1440 at 100Hz and it dealt fine with that.   Rare was the case I felt performance wasn't what I wanted. Look up benchmarks to see if the performance is what you're looking for at that resolution.  If you can afford it go with a 1080 Ti.  I upgraded to a 1080 Ti for my setup and I almost laugh at the idea of turning settings down. The 1080 Ti is a beast of a card.

 

One thing you may consider a benefit of the 1080 Ti over the 1080 as well is the extra 3GB of vram.  Almost no games need more than 8GB, but it's a nice to have.  Then you can also laugh at the idea of vram requirements for games, until you play that one game that somehow needs more than 11GB just to make you feel bad.  Maybe it can help if you make another "bad" decision and go with an ultrawide?

[Jon Jon]

1080ti is pretty much where you should go.

 

For anyone going for highest FPS possible, get the fastest flagship card.

 

Anything else will just disappoint you.

[jeremymwilson]

I don’t know, but will the 2600 cpu prevent you getting the most out of the 1080ti?

 

at some point you are going to have to think about updating your cpu/motherboard. 

[CostcoSamples]

I run the same display with a GTX 1070 and i7 4790k.  I am very happy with this combo and find I am almost always over 100 FPS with settings maxed out.  I play a lot of Paragon, which easily gets 120 FPS.  I have not tried any of the big 2017 AAA titles though, so I'm sure some of those would be run a bit slower.  

 

Obviously a 1080 ti is ideal, but you have to think about your CPU too.  High FPS is where a CPU will tend to show it's age.  You might not actually see any difference between say a 1070 and 1080 ti, simply due to CPU bottle neck.

 

Also - rumors of the GTX 1070 Ti are floating around so expect that to drop relatively soon.  Should be roughly equal to a 1080.

[Zeitec]

5 minutes ago, CostcoSamples said:

I run the same display with a GTX 1070 and i7 4790k.  I am very happy with this combo and find I am almost always over 100 FPS with settings maxed out.  I play a lot of Paragon, which easily gets 120 FPS.  I have not tried any of the big 2017 AAA titles though, so I'm sure some of those would be run a bit slower.  

 

Obviously a 1080 ti is ideal, but you have to think about your CPU too.  High FPS is where a CPU will tend to show it's age.  You might not actually see any difference between say a 1070 and 1080 ti, simply due to CPU bottle neck.

 

Also - rumors of the GTX 1070 Ti are floating around so expect that to drop relatively soon.  Should be roughly equal to a 1080.

The rumours also say it's clockspeed will be locked to about 1700mhz. Most aftermarket 1080s boost to about 2ghz from what I can tell. It'll probably be a good 10% slower than the 1080. Not that it's a massive difference, but if you're aiming for high frame rates at 1440p it may make a difference. 

[CostcoSamples]

14 minutes ago, Zeitec said:

The rumours also say it's clockspeed will be locked to about 1700mhz. Most aftermarket 1080s boost to about 2ghz from what I can tell. It'll probably be a good 10% slower than the 1080. Not that it's a massive difference, but if you're aiming for high frame rates at 1440p it may make a difference. 

Yeah I saw that one too.  As always, we won't know until it's announced.  Anyway I don't think 10% is at all noticeable, and besides, I think his old 2600k is going to hamstring any mid to high-end card once he starts to get up there in FPS.  I think he should look for a good deal on any of the following cards and not worry about 10%:

 

- GTX 1070

- used GTX 980 ti

- or wait for GTX 1070 ti

[phongle123]

15 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

i7 8700k with a 1080 Ti, if feels not enough SLI it, as funny as recommending a TITAN Xp goes... just no.

But he recommended a Titan XP which costs a little bit less than a Titan Xp...xP

[strat guy]

15 hours ago, JaegerB said:

Vega 64

That's a G-Sync monitor, need an Nvidia card to use those.

 

Unless OP is into competetive shooters etc, it shouldn't make that much of a difference. A 1070 should suffice, a 1080 will perform better, and a ti will output the most frames.

[JaegerB]

4 hours ago, strat guy said:

That's a G-Sync monitor, need an Nvidia card to use those.

 

Well, no. It doesn't need one, it will still work fine. You just don't get adaptive sync goodies, which imo is not worth paying $200+ more for on a monitor.

[BatyGaming]

ok so i feel like wherever you go from here your gonna be bottlekecked by your cpu, possibly a 8600k and another 970. what did you do with your other monitor. is it sold? id like to buy it ahahahaha

[strat guy]

6 hours ago, JaegerB said:

Well, no. It doesn't need one, it will still work fine. You just don't get adaptive sync goodies, which imo is not worth paying $200+ more for on a monitor.

Sure, but having already got one, it just sort of makes sense to pair it with an Nvidia card to go along with it.

[JaegerB]

7 hours ago, BatyGaming said:

ok so i feel like wherever you go from here your gonna be bottlekecked by your cpu

No. The i7 2600k with a slight overclock will still level or beat the 8600k. No need to buy a new one yet.

[JaegerB]

1 hour ago, strat guy said:

Sure, but having already got one, it just sort of makes sense to pair it with an Nvidia card to go along with it.

Exactly. I just mentioned the Vega since it's an alternative, and I don't want it to look like I'm giving a biased recommendation. Personally, I think Vega is pretty crap, but benchmarks do show that it is even (or close to) 1070s and 1080s. I just think that pricing and power draw make it extremely uneconomical. So yeah, any day I'd recommend nvidia if you've got a g-sync monitor, and right now they basically have a monopoly on the high-performance card market.

[strat guy]

1 hour ago, JaegerB said:

Exactly. I just mentioned the Vega since it's an alternative, and I don't want it to look like I'm giving a biased recommendation. Personally, I think Vega is pretty crap, but benchmarks do show that it is even (or close to) 1070s and 1080s. I just think that pricing and power draw make it extremely uneconomical. So yeah, any day I'd recommend nvidia if you've got a g-sync monitor, and right now they basically have a monopoly on the high-performance card market.

Damn shame about just how pricey these Gsync ones are compared to Freesync monitors. Good thing OP is looking at high end cards like the 1080/ti to go with the monitor but this is a very screwed up PC market these days, RAM/SSD nand shortages, miners ruining the GPU scene, nobody can get their hands on Coffee Lake chips..

[Qyoon]

Depending on what you play imo.

 

I play in 1080 at 180Hz. with a GTX1080.

Most games are running easily around 100+ FPS.

But less optimised ones (ubisoft...) are running poorly.

Even dropping around the 50's or lower.

So if you have the budget i would concider :

- GTX1080 and avoid or reduce details in some games.

- GTX1080Ti hurt the wallet but more suitable for the job. 

[r3loAded]

On ‎23‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 1:43 AM, JaegerB said:

Vega 56, Vega 64

You for real? He's got a G-Sync monitor and that's what you recommend? ............................. 

[r3loAded]

On ‎23‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 1:40 AM, Shaper said:

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Got the same monitor (check my signature). It's driven by an GTX 980Ti (no OC) and an Intel 6600k (no OC).

 

I am playing World of Tanks ultra settings and getting 110fps. That's when my 980Ti is at 98-99% load. Could take this as an example if helps.

[JaegerB]

9 hours ago, r3loAded said:

You for real? He's got a G-Sync monitor and that's what you recommend? ............................. 

Read the discussion between stratguy and I (^above^) before saying things that have already been said please.